From: John Gallagher <jgalla@orca.esd114.wednet.edu>
Subject: Star Party in Olympic National Park
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 1997 16:44:55 -0700
> We will be having our next star party on Hurricane Ridge in Port Angeles > WA, Monday Sept 8. If you live in western Washington, join us! Meet at > the Olympic National Park Visitor Center at 8 pm. We will be observing > Venus (barely before setting), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Andromeda Galaxy > and learning the constellations. > > Some Live From Mars participants from eastern Washington and British > Columbia have requested we hold a star party on a Saturday. Plans > aren't confirmed yet, but we are scheduling one for Saturday October 11. > The plan is for my high school astronomy club to train over the next > month so the students will host this one! We're also going to schedule > one of our elementary schools' astronomy night then so you would all be > welcome to see how our fifth grade teachers set up this special event. > Current best hope plan: Saturday 5pm-7pm Jefferson School Astronomy > program with families rotating through the Starlab planetarium, > constellations and storytelling activities and planet projetcs. The > students will have just finished their astronomy unit. Then 8 pm have > our star party at Hurricane Ridge for those families and the general > public. Then on Sunday we'll finish the weekend with solar observations > through filters, again in Olympic National Park. > > Reserve the weekend on your calendars, hope for National Park approval, > good weather and I'll let you know as soon as possible. > > I look forward to this chance to meet Live From Mars participants from > the northwest! >